Workers' Compensation News

A Sanborn maintenance worker has been charged with workers' compensation fraud after he was allegedly observed installing and servicing swimming pools while collecting temporary total disability benefits, ...Read More

The Department of Labor and Industry has raised the maximum compensation payable under the Workers’ Compensation Act by 3%, to $1,025 a week, for 2018.
The 2017 maximum rate was $995.
The new rate is based upon the statewide average weekly wage, as determined by the Dep...Read More

Gov. Jerry Brown has reappointed Don Marshall to the Fraud Assessment Commission, where he has served since 2009.
Marshall became vice president of the anti-fraud unit at Zenith Insurance Co. in 2003 and previously managed the carrier’s investigations from 1993 to 1996. He was ...Read More

The Minnesota Department of Administration is requesting proposals for certified workers’ compensation managed health care services for state employees with work-related injuries or illnesses.
Work is proposed to start after July 1, according to a ...Read More

The California Workers’ Compensation Institute said the reimbursement rate for injured workers who have to travel for medical treatment will increase to 54.5 cents per mile in 2018, from 53.5 cents.
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The medical share of total workers’ compensation benefit costs in New York dropped to 37% in 2015 and 2016, according to a new report — significantly lower than the national average of 51.4%.
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Of the 18 states that had their 2010-15 workers’ compensation medical costs analyzed by the Workers Compensation Research Institute, Michigan’s were among the lowest, the nonprofit organization reported.
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Today's Round Up

03/20/2018 |
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The North Carolina Department of Insurance has hired 15 new agents to fight a rising tide of insurance fraud.
Mike Causey
The state's General Assembly last year appropriated $2.4 million to hire the agents after fraud arrests jumped to 334 in 2017, a 60% increase from the previous year, state Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey said in news release. Each month, the department receives 400 to 500 fraud complaints, Causey said.
The new agents were trained at the department's anti-fraud academy and include a crime analyst, forensic accountant, attorneys and special agents.
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03/19/2018 |
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Texas could make better use of stop-work orders to crack down on employers who misclassify workers as contractors to avoid paying workers' compensation, a Washington, D.C., think tank said this week.
Andrew Elmore
The Migration Policy Institute, which studies migration worldwide, on Thursday released a study that shows immigrants are twice as likely as native-born workers to be employed in industries in which labor violations are widespread.
Misclassifying workers as independent contractors is common in low-wage businesses, the report said.
Some states, including Texas, are not ...
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